Nicole Kidman has branded 2014 the toughest year she has ever faced as she continues to grieve for her late father. The Moulin Rouge! star’s dad, Dr. Antony Kidman, died after suffering a fall in …

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Nicole Kidman has branded 2014 the toughest year she has ever faced as she continues to grieve for her late father.

The Moulin Rouge! star’s dad, Dr. Antony Kidman, died after suffering a fall in Singapore in September, and the actress has been left devastated by her loss.

She now tries to talk about her father as much as possible to keep his memory alive, and although the tragedy has pulled her family closer together, the last few months have been the hardest battle she has ever faced.

Kidman tells the Sydney Daily Telegraph, “You know, I will look back at this year as one of the toughest years our family’s ever gone through – I mean, the toughest, ever…

“I talk about it because I like to keep him alive, in a way. Even though you talk about it, you’re still in so much pain so, yeah, as a family we’re still in a lot of pain… As any family knows when you’ve had a huge loss, it makes you tighter, you have to also protect each other.”

Nicole Kidman fought back tears as she paid tribute to her father at his funeral in Sydney, Australia, on Friday.

Dr. Anthony Kidman died last week after suffering a fall while visiting the actress’ sister Antonia in Singapore, and family members gathered in their home city of Sydney to pay their last respects at his memorial service.

The Oscar winner was joined by her husband, Keith Urban, and fellow actor Russell Crowe for the funeral at St. Francis Xavier Church, and she gave an emotional eulogy paying tribute to her beloved dad.

Kidman revealed her father was a huge support after she split from ex-husband Tom Cruise in 2001, telling the congregation, “He was the father that was on a plane, hours after I got divorced, to come and take care of me, staying with me for weeks for as long as I needed. He was also the father who would when I was crying always tell me ‘Nicki, it’s going to be OK.’ … He was a man that was always there for me, a thinker, my confidant, my friend and my protector.”

Kidman then sang “Amazing Grace” with her country star husband Urban, while he and Crowe were also among the pallbearers at the funeral.

Nicole Kidman is in mourning after her father died on Friday. Dr. Anthony Kidman was pronounced dead in hospital after suffering a fall while visiting Nicole’s sister Antonia in Singapore. He was …

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Nicole Kidman is in mourning after her father died on Friday.

Dr. Anthony Kidman was pronounced dead in hospital after suffering a fall while visiting Nicole’s sister Antonia in Singapore. He was thought to be in his 80s.

The actress’ publicist tells Daily Mail Australia that the “family is in shock and is grieving. … I think that some time and privacy is needed to deal with this shock and tragedy.”

Dr. Kidman was a clinical psychologist at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney, Australia and a director of health psychology at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). He was honored with an Order of Australia in 2005 for his work in the field.

His UTS colleague Professor Attila Brungs says, “It is with great sadness that we learn of Dr Tony Kidman’s sudden passing. During his 43 years at the University of Technology, Sydney, Tony has contributed greatly – as a colleague, as a researcher, and as a health practitioner. … Tony will be missed by all at UTS. Our thoughts are with his family at this time.”

Local police tell Reuters news agency they are investigating an unnatural death.

Actress Nicole Kidman is baffled by the outrage over the Hollywood hacking scandal, insisting there are more important issues in the world than nude celebrity pictures. The entertainment world has …

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Actress Nicole Kidman is baffled by the outrage over the Hollywood hacking scandal, insisting there are more important issues in the world than nude celebrity pictures.

The entertainment world has been rocked by the release of dozens of nude snaps of stars including, Jennifer Lawrence and Kirsten Dunst, and the story has dominated headlines since the photographs hit the Internet on August 31.

However, Kidman is adamant the scandal has been blown out of proportion.

She tells Sky News, “These days there’s far too much importance placed on things like that. Who cares about these photos, that’s very superficial, why that would even make news astounds me, but a lot of what makes the news astounds me. I do think we need to be talking about the violence in the world, in terms of Iraq, violence towards women, education and women, what’s happening in Afghanistan. There are so many topics that we could be giving time to than celebrity photos, it just doesn’t hold any interest for me.”

Nicole Kidman is adamant she is not “responsible” for the critical failure of her new movie “Grace of Monaco,” insisting she did not have “any control” over how the film turned out.

The Oscar winner plays actress-turned-princess Grace Kelly in the biopic, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in France earlier this month to scathing reviews.

Critics branded the movie “dull” and “stiff,” and it was also slammed by members of the Monaco royal family, who were unhappy with the portrayal of their mother.

However, Kidman insists the film’s failure to impress is not her fault, telling Britain’s Seven magazine, “As much as people go, ‘Oh, the actor is totally responsible,’ the actor doesn’t go into the editing room. I wasn’t producing the film. I wasn’t directing it and I don’t have control over any of it. You literally do the performance and then you leave and you are told, ‘Okay, come here to help promote the movie’. That’s what I did.”

Nicole Kidman has shrugged off the storm swirling around her new movie “Grace of Monaco,” insisting she has courted controversy throughout her career.

Critics have savaged the actress’ portrayal of Hollywood screen star-turned-princess Grace Kelly following the film’s premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in France earlier this week.

Film reviewers branded it “dull” and “stiff”, while Prince Albert of Monaco and his sisters slammed Kidman’s portrayal of their mother, calling the movie a “farce.”

However, Kidman is refusing to be rattled by criticism, and insists she believed the part was one of the safest role choices of her big screen career.

Speaking to U.K. TV show “Good Morning Britain,” she says, “Most films I do ruffle feathers. I don’t think I’ve ever done a film that hasn’t had some sort of controversy, that just seems to be where I’m at. And even when I think I’m doing something safe, it isn’t.

“To me this seemed kinda safe but I tend to walk the high wire (sic). If I was in the circus, that would be me, the high wire act.”

Harvey Weinstein has dismissed reports he deliberately snubbed the Cannes Film Festival premiere of Nicole Kidman’s new Grace Kelly movie following a feud with the director, insisting he was busy …

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Harvey Weinstein has dismissed reports he deliberately snubbed the Cannes Film Festival premiere of Nicole Kidman’s new Grace Kelly movie following a feud with the director, insisting he was busy visiting Syrian refugee camps.

The movie mogul has been in a public dispute with “Grace of Monaco” director Olivier Dahan over the film’s content and proposed changes, and he was noticeably absent from the red carpet unveiling at the famous French event on Wednesday.

However, Weinstein is adamant he did not intentionally avoid the premiere, insisting he was unable to attend as he had a prior engagement on a United Nations charity trip to Jordan to meet refugees from war-torn Syria.

Weinstein tells New York Post gossip column Page Six, “My wife Georgina (Chapman) and I have been in Jordan visiting two Syrian refugee camps. This was a long-planned trip with (the United Nations) … to bring attention to the plight of refugees … forced to flee Syria.”

“Grace of Monaco” was hit with scathing reviews from critics followings its premiere at Cannes, while Dahan told reporters at a press conference during the festival that his feud with Weinstein had been resolved: “If we’re making changes, we’ll do them together. There are no more polemics, It’s all resolved, we’re working together.”

Nicole Kidman and her “Grace of Monaco” director Olivier Dahan addressed the conflict over their new movie at a press conference on Wednesday, before the film opened this year’s Cannes Film Festival. …

Australian actress Nicole Kidman poses as she arrives for the Opening Ceremony and the screening of her film "Grace of Monaco" at the 67th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on May 14, 2014.

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Australian actress Nicole Kidman poses as she arrives for the Opening Ceremony and the screening of her film "Grace of Monaco" at the 67th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on May 14, 2014.

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Actress Nicole Kidman (L) dances with French actor and Master of Ceremony Lambert Wilson at the Opening ceremony during the 67th Annual Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2014 in Cannes, France.

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Actress Nicole Kidman (L) dances with French actor and Master of Ceremony Lambert Wilson at the Opening ceremony during the 67th Annual Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2014 in Cannes, France.

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Blake Lively attends the Opening ceremony and the "Grace of Monaco" Premiere during the 67th Annual Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2014 in Cannes, France.

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Blake Lively attends the Opening ceremony and the "Grace of Monaco" Premiere during the 67th Annual Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2014 in Cannes, France.

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Jane Fonda attends the Opening ceremony and the "Grace of Monaco" Premiere during the 67th Annual Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2014 in Cannes, France.

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Jane Fonda attends the Opening ceremony and the "Grace of Monaco" Premiere during the 67th Annual Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2014 in Cannes, France.

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Karlie Kloss attends the Opening ceremony and the "Grace of Monaco" Premiere during the 67th Annual Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2014 in Cannes, France.

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Karlie Kloss attends the Opening ceremony and the "Grace of Monaco" Premiere during the 67th Annual Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2014 in Cannes, France.

Karlie Kloss attends the Opening ceremony and the "Grace of Monaco"...Premiere during the 67th Annual Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2014...in Cannes, France.

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Elena Lenina attends the Opening ceremony and the "Grace of Monaco" Premiere during the 67th Annual Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2014 in Cannes, France.

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Elena Lenina attends the Opening ceremony and the "Grace of Monaco" Premiere during the 67th Annual Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2014 in Cannes, France.

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Actress Adele Exarchopoulos attends the Opening ceremony and the "Grace of Monaco" Premiere during the 67th Annual Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2014 in Cannes, France.

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Actress Adele Exarchopoulos attends the Opening ceremony and the "Grace of Monaco" Premiere during the 67th Annual Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2014 in Cannes, France.

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Director Alfonso Cuaron attends the Opening ceremony and the "Grace of Monaco" Premiere during the 67th Annual Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2014 in Cannes, France.

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Director Alfonso Cuaron attends the Opening ceremony and the "Grace of Monaco" Premiere during the 67th Annual Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2014 in Cannes, France.

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Actress Audrey Tautou attends the Opening ceremony and the "Grace of Monaco" Premiere during the 67th Annual Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2014 in Cannes, France.

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Actress Audrey Tautou attends the Opening ceremony and the "Grace of Monaco" Premiere during the 67th Annual Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2014 in Cannes, France.

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Zoe Saldana attends the Opening ceremony and the "Grace of Monaco" Premiere during the 67th Annual Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2014 in Cannes, France.

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Zoe Saldana attends the Opening ceremony and the "Grace of Monaco" Premiere during the 67th Annual Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2014 in Cannes, France.

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Zhang Ziyi attends the Opening Ceremony and the "Grace of Monaco" premiere during the 67th Annual Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2014 in Cannes, France.

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Zhang Ziyi attends the Opening Ceremony and the "Grace of Monaco" premiere during the 67th Annual Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2014 in Cannes, France.

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Nadja Auermann attends the Opening ceremony and the "Grace of Monaco" Premiere during the 67th Annual Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2014 in Cannes, France.

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Nadja Auermann attends the Opening ceremony and the "Grace of Monaco" Premiere during the 67th Annual Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2014 in Cannes, France.

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Kendal Jenner attends the Opening ceremony and the "Grace of Monaco" Premiere during the 67th Annual Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2014 in Cannes, France.

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Jin Qiaoqiao attends the Opening ceremony and the "Grace of Monaco" Premiere during the 67th Annual Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2014 in Cannes, France.

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Jury member Sofia Coppola poses for photographers on the red carpet for the opening ceremony and the screening of Grace of Monaco at the 67th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 14, 2014.

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Actor Tim Roth during the opening ceremony ahead of the screening of Grace Of Monaco at the 67th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 14, 2014.

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Nicole Kidman and her “Grace of Monaco” director Olivier Dahan addressed the conflict over their new movie at a press conference on Wednesday, before the film opened this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

Prince Albert of Monaco and his sisters have condemned the film, in which Kidman portrays their late mother, but Dahan and his leading lady were eager to downplay the controversy surrounding the movie as they prepared for its premiere on Wednesday night.

Their film centers on relations between Grace Kelly and her husband, Monaco’s Prince Rainier III, when she revealed she was considering a break from royal life to return to Hollywood.

The couple’s children insists the film “recounts one rewritten, needlessly glamorized page in the history of Monaco and its family with both major historical inaccuracies and a series of purely fictional scenes.”

Responding to the royal family’s latest attack at the press conference, Kidman said, “Obviously, I feel sad because I think the film has no malice towards the family or particularly towards Grace or Rainier. It’s fictionalized obviously. It is not a biopic. There is the essence of truth, but with a lot of these things you take dramatic license at times.”

She added, “It’s awkward, is what it is. I still have respect and I want them to know that the performance was done with love and I want them to know if they ever do see it, they would see that there is an enormous amount of affection for both their parents and the love story of their parents.”

Check out photos from the Cannes Film Festival as “Grace of Monaco” opened the fest on Wednesday night, and watch the movie’s trailer below.

Australian transplant Nicole Kidman is gushing about living in Nashville, Tenn., insisting the simple way of life in the south suits her well. The Oscar winner and her husband, singer Keith Urban, …

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Australian transplant Nicole Kidman is gushing about living in Nashville, Tenn., insisting the simple way of life in the south suits her well.

The Oscar winner and her husband, singer Keith Urban, settled in the country musical capital in late 2007, and they have made the city their main home ever since.

She explains, “It feels like a normal life in Nashville. … I like to have the white picket (fence) life.

“I like the routine of family and breakfast together and dinner together. I don’t need much. I don’t need to be going out at night. I’m a bit of a homebody. So it totally suits me to live in the south and have a simple life.”

And her two daughters, Sunday, 5, and Faith, 3, are already well acclimated to life in Nashville.

Kidman adds, “My daughters have southern accents. They say ‘Yes ma’am’… I’m not allowed to lose my Australian accent. If I lost my Australian accent, Australia would disown me.”